[pfflier]

They are intermingling terms like "barracks" with former military housing neighborhoods.

There are both abandoned in the Monterey/ Fort Ord area, left to rot while homeless swamp the bay area and LA.

When I was there in 1971, at DLI at the Presidio, the Monterey bay area wasn't the most military friendly location I was ever associated with, except maybe Tilly Gorts.

[Night Hides Not]

I would have loved to been stationed there. A buddy of mine from Germany did his last two years there, made me envious.

Of course, I realized I didn't have it so bad: 4 1/2 years in Germany (lived in Traben-Trarbach, my commute my last two years took me through the Urziger Wurzgarten vineyards), and 4 years at Fort Bliss (El Paso)...awesome weather there.

I could have been with an Infantry unit that trained 8 months out of the year in the red mud at Grafenwohr. Instead, I was on a couple of AF bases during my tour in Germany.

[Seruzawa]

As an ex-sailor I found that the locals in any Military Base area treat the servicemen like shyt. When the Navy shut down all those bases in Dago I thought back on being harassed by the SDPD and laughed at the economic payback. All those crooked businesses along the main drag... too bad for you.